Wildfire Home hardening and Defensible space workshop

Date: June 26

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Where: Woods Cove in Santa Cruz County.

Cost: $20 but scholarships are available.

Subjects that will be covered:

Local history:  Native cultural burning, Tule elk grazing, colonization, logging and brush encroachment

Current situation: climate change and lack of stewardship

Land stewardship tools: broadcast burning, pile burning, targeted grazing, mechanical (saws, chipping, mastication etc.) and chemicals

Defensible space: the 3′ to 30′ to 100′ zones

Home hardening: keeping your home safe in a ground fire or ember-cast fire

Native species: the good, the bad

Invasive species: and the ugly

Pathogens: Sudden oak death, Pine bark beetle, Monterey pine canker

Solutions: Love, consistency and hard work!

Register at:  https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=34949